school shooting
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The recent tragedy at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has sadly raised this question again. The failure to prevent the loss of young lives reflects both an unpleasant reality and some problems of politics.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsLiberty
Absolute Rights – and Wrongs: Is It Really All About the Kids?
by David Applegate April 15, 2013In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of…
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Thanks to Janet Napolitano and her Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it won’t be surprising if President Obama next comes for our scissors. DHS has released a video entitled “Active Shooter…
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Legal AffairsLiberty
Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure
by Peter Ferrara January 28, 2013Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This is not a matter of…
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Guns are used for self-defense about 400,000 times per year, according to one scholar. That number is a compromise; other scholars put the number as high as between 800,000 and…
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Biden, Guns, and the Heartland Daily Podcast
by Jim Lakely January 11, 2013On Friday’s Heartland Daily Podcast, I talk with Senior Fellow for Legal Affairs Maureen Martin about the latest developments on the gun-control front. The discussion was prompted by her recent…
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It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror…